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7/9/2025, 11:51:08 AM
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yes, i'm using exFAT and a 4TB SSD, but I'm using the OEM expansion bay and not the newer preconverted chink ones you can get. i mean, i do have one of those too for my backup ps2, but it's nowhere near as good as the OEM expansion bay as it has an ethernet port, which opens up an extreme amount of options, like playing games over ethernet via NAS. however it only supported IDE drives originally, so there is a custom ribbon cable and board you can swap in for SATA support, and the use of SSDs.
previously before the grimdoomer version of OPL you had to partition each game, and had to split up games that were larger than 4GB, of which many of the best games are, so it was tedious. this version of OPL allows the use of drives larger than 2TB and allows for dragging and dropping. it's 1000x better, the old way was extremely slow, and tedious. you can boot freemcboot from a usb drive as well iirc, i prefer memory card though, it pretty much never leaves the console, but it's cheap to replace or make a new one if you lose it, but yeah, you probably could even just partition the drive in such a way as to allow you to both boot freemcboot AND have a different partition for the games.
i forgot to mention in my initial post that i also replaced the stock fan with a noctua. combining that with the SSD and not really ever using discs much, it's superbly quiet.
yes, i'm using exFAT and a 4TB SSD, but I'm using the OEM expansion bay and not the newer preconverted chink ones you can get. i mean, i do have one of those too for my backup ps2, but it's nowhere near as good as the OEM expansion bay as it has an ethernet port, which opens up an extreme amount of options, like playing games over ethernet via NAS. however it only supported IDE drives originally, so there is a custom ribbon cable and board you can swap in for SATA support, and the use of SSDs.
previously before the grimdoomer version of OPL you had to partition each game, and had to split up games that were larger than 4GB, of which many of the best games are, so it was tedious. this version of OPL allows the use of drives larger than 2TB and allows for dragging and dropping. it's 1000x better, the old way was extremely slow, and tedious. you can boot freemcboot from a usb drive as well iirc, i prefer memory card though, it pretty much never leaves the console, but it's cheap to replace or make a new one if you lose it, but yeah, you probably could even just partition the drive in such a way as to allow you to both boot freemcboot AND have a different partition for the games.
i forgot to mention in my initial post that i also replaced the stock fan with a noctua. combining that with the SSD and not really ever using discs much, it's superbly quiet.
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